Tesla And Non-Tesla EV Charging Adapters: Everything You Need To Know

We examine a variety of EV charging adapters that allow Tesla vehicles to charge on non-Tesla charging stations and the adapters that will enable non-Tesla EVs to use Tesla Wall Connectors and Destination chargers.

Links to the adapters mentioned in this video:

Chapters:

0:00 EV charging adapters intro
0:41 Different connectors for different countries
2:22 The Tesla connector
3:18 The connector at all non-Tesla EV use
3:57 The DC fast charging connectors
5:05 The adapter to charge a Tesla vehicle from a non-tesla charging station
6:35 Adapters for charging non-Tesla EVs from Tesla Wall Connectors and Destination chargers
12:33 The CHAdeMO to Tesla adapter
14:21 CCS1 to Tesla adapters for DC fast charging
15:08 The SETEC (now Lectron) CCS1 to Tesla adapter
17:44 The EVHUB CCS1 to Tesla adapter
19:07 The Tesla-made CCS1 to Tesla adapter
24:20 How to find out if your Tesla can use the CCS1 adapter
26:05 Testing the CCS1 adapter at an Electrify America DC fast charger
32:22 Testing the CHAdeMO to Tesla adapter
35:14 Charging non-Tesla EVs at Tesla Superchargers
38:54 Why the Tesla-made adapter is the best one
40:59 Always put safety first with EV charging
44:57 The wrapup

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[afterburner]

Tom, I'm not even in North America but I watched till the end because it was super insightful and your storytelling is just unmatched. 👍 Cheers from good ol' France!

[georgesackinger]

Tom, your video's just got better. This, to me, is your best video ever. Well planned out, executed and excellent factual content. I appreciate the lack of bias and the sharing with failures as well as successes. Keep up the excellent videos. Everyone who buys or is contemplating buying a EV needs to pay close attention to this video. It is current and would help anyone understand the complexity of EV charging. 😀

[mendewy]

This video cleared up the confusion brought on by several websites previously visited. 😃

[Shkvarka]

Just bought Model Y, this is very helpful review! Best regards from Ukraine, Odesa city! And many thanks to the People of the United States for supporting us and not leaving alone with world terrorist, we will never forget this.

[cwilsonpa]

Funny when my electrician was installing my Hardwired ChargePoint EVSE in 2017 for my Bolt EV, he installed a GFCI breaker and the unit keep tripping. At that point I informed him that the ChargePoint had GFCI built-in. We then switched to a non-GFCI breaker and it has been great for over 5 years. This is the 1st video that I have seen to address this situation. Great video, very thorough . Good job Tom !

[willsheridan]

Great video Tom. I work in the industry and worked for ABB up until last August where I ran a test lab with L2 and DC Fast chargers in Richmond VA. I was under a NDA at the time but earlier last year, Tesla sent me one of the CCS1 adaptors along with a loaner ModelX to test with ABB chargers. It worked great after Tesla enabled the sw on the X to be compatible with the adaptor.

[gregyohngy]

I got a great deal for a Tesla to J 1772 adapter. Amazon was selling an 80 amp unit with a lock for $79.

Beats the 40 amp units and those without a key.

I used my Amazon credit to get it to under $75.00.

[Lynyrd_Evnyrd]

I love my Tesla CCS1 adapter, I get 188kW on my local EA station which beats the V2 Superchargers in my area given both the higher speed and not needing to share stalls. I’ll be using it with EA on my big trip up to Omaha this weekend.

It was a bit of a challenge to get working since I had to retrofit the charging ECU which is a scary process and took lots of service center calling to get the part.

If you already have CCS support enabled though, getting the physical Tesla CCS1 adapter through Harumio was super easy for me.

[maximocunillera]

The Best explanation and tips regarding the ev adapters in general

[ChrisandKnight]

I was able to do the DIY process to upgrade the ECU in my 2018 model 3 to use the CCS adapter. And it does work! Very informative video.

[yolanda]

My March 2020 Model X is CCS enabled. Just bought the Tesla to CCS adapter - paid 700$ on Ebay. Excited to try it out. Thanks for your help.

[cesartrujillo]

Woah Tom! I’m your biggest fan but that was crazy… I’m pretty sure the new Nissan is pronounced like the musical term aria. ARE ee uh.

Thank you for doing this video. I knew you hadn’t done one yet so I was looking for adapters for a friend really hoping you would do a video. I guess I was behind the times last week since I was traveling. My apologies for not being the first to watch and like the video.

[jonathanbrown]

Tom,
Great video, we needed to install a single charger in a family vacation home and this video along with the 2023 best of video gave me the insight I needed to make a choice. Love your channel!

[George-nxzu]

That was extremely informative, especially the fact that the Tesla-made CCS 1 adapter locks itself unless charging stops

[michaellow]

Excellent review. I rented a Tesla and couldn't figure out why the non Tesla station plug wouldn't fit the port. Now I know I need a f***ing adapter! lol

[joshuasmith]

My 60 Amp Tesla tap finally arrived in the mail. Now just waiting on my ID4 to arrive at the dealership. The Qmerrit home office in Texas is just north of Austin, Texas.

[unknownt]

HOT DIGGITY DOG! This is THE video I was looking for. THANK YOU!

[craig]

Thanks Mate
i think i found u reporting on e for electric utube channel . i really like your presenting style, no nonsense, factual and experiental baased, and seemingly very interestedand passionate about the topic and most of all thorough and well thought out to get the information accross, as wel as getting ALL of the steps and concerns a veiwer m ight have high lighted and outlined ( with so many others t to the end and have more questions now cause the explanation and demo either mis speak or gloss over or dont show aspects of the topic that are less than usefull not see), defnitely not the case with you . your persnable style and clar passion for what you do is a pleasure to watch..

Interestingly i find myself clicking on and wathing your videios even though i have no real practical use for alot of it at present, i am in australia, and we are so very far behind on EV adoption and market penetration and use that t will in practical sence, as well as legi slative and code implementation allowances it will be some time before they are a viable thing more than just a small number of those early adopters such as in your country back in 2012/15.

think for me and my peers in suburbia to consider/ have and use EVs as ny sort of let alone sole mode of transport will become viable only in the medium term. ( some of this is probalby because of the massive size of th country, ( basically the same land mass as the continetal US) but ith 13X less or 7 perecnt of your population rolling out expensive large scale infrastrucure is always slower and very targeted to support new things and that almost lowest overall population density of anywherre on this bubble, massive travel distances are commonplace normal and not even noticed as we go about daily life - untill say travelling overseas ( wher many whole countriies in europe are smaller to traverse than our states, counties and even some cities or local suburbs even . such that by nature EV adoption wil lower pace than more densely populated/ high infracstructure places .

none the less you present usefull info easy to understand and seemingly a nice guy, thankyou .

i dont know what your time constraints or intersts are or how hard is to make utube content but u should consider branching into other areas either related or unrelated as im sure would be well received . cheers

( sorry for mispellin or lost characters - dodgy keybord )

[PNWeBike]

Barely a year later and now that Ford, GM, and Rivian have committed to using the Tesla NACS connector, and others including Mercedes-Benz considering it, it would seem that CCS is on it's way out. Great to see that the better technology won, and soon the need for all these adapters will go away too.

[eugeniustheodidactus]

Boy, you just about covered it all Tom ! Excellent video.